Hey man, whatever happened to the Palm Pilot and do you think it's really necessary to get a computer with a sound card. Really? I think the Dali Lama has an ultra secure Blackberry taped on to his scuba gear.

Hey man, whatever happened to the Palm Pilot and do you think it's really necessary to get a computer with a sound card. Really? I think the Dali Lama has an ultra secure Blackberry taped on to his scuba gear.

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You don't really NEED a sound card. You can always listen to cassettes on your walkman while you're working on the computer.

Lately I've realized I never use my iphone for anything but calls, texts and emails. I can't remember the last time I played a game. I do google things quite often and use the navigation a few times a week, but those are both things I can do on my old 8530. It weighs almost nothing, the battery lasts way longer, and it can easily survive a tumble down a flight of concrete steps. It's actually in my desk drawer right now. Hmm....

I should have qualified I do not fool with using much music on my phone. I use my phone for multiple emails, texts, and phone calls. I use my now outdated Zune for music. It would be a major pain to get all my tunes out of my Zune and into another device.

What is different about it? What do you like? What do you not like? I have gotten quite used to the track ball/pad, I guess you don't need it with the touch screen? Is the display as durable as the old BB's?

What is different about it? What do you like? What do you not like? I have gotten quite used to the track ball/pad, I guess you don't need it with the touch screen? Is the display as durable as the old BB's?

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No display issues. I don't know if it's that 'Gorilla Glass' but it acts like it. No scratches.

The screen is small, which is a tradeoff I was willing to accept with the form factor and integrated physical (not slide-out, like my 9700) keyboard.

What I miss about the trackpad (aside from BrickBreaker, which I really did play too much...) is cursor movement for editing. The workaround (replacement feature?) is that when you touch-and-hold a spot on the screen, a big circle appears and that puts you into 'cursor-nav-mode' and you can move wherever you need to. It's manageable.

Especially since the predictive typing is _really_ good. I don't know if it's got a learning process or not - I think it may have learned some words I used. But for most things I do with it - messaging, emails, and such - I rarely have to type more than a couple of letters and then select the complete word. So you spend a lot less time correcting because it was correct to begin with...

The browser is decent but of course there's that screen size. This is -not- a tablet! Web page zooming is fast and natural, so you can expand text so legible size, but then you have to scroll it around a bit to see everything. I could not recommend it if web browsing is high on your activities list.

But I've used it many times to read (and respond to) posts here. No complaints really.

Battery life is -excellent- (even better than my wife's Z10) which was one reason I chose it.) Especially if you use a BlackBerry case with the embedded magnets that blank the screen when not in use.

Our wireless plan gives us a bunch of text messages but now about 90% of our messaging is BBM which does not use your SMS count.

BB has always lagged behind Android and the iStuff in terms of apps. I haven't felt the lack, really. Downloaded a Tuner app - whoopee...

I just switched from an iPhone 5S to the Q10 and I love it, had a blackberry for years and then had every version of the iPhone up to the 5S and just got sick of being forced into upgrading marginally improved iPhones every year for 6 years straight. With BB10.2 OS I've sideloaded every app I had on the iPhone on the Q10 as well, plus it's nice to have a device that doesn't need to be charged every couple hours, QWERTY keyboard can't be beat

I just switched from an iPhone 5S to the Q10 and I love it, had a blackberry for years and then had every version of the iPhone up to the 5S and just got sick of being forced into upgrading marginally improved iPhones every year for 6 years straight. With BB10.2 OS I've sideloaded every app I had on the iPhone on the Q10 as well, plus it's nice to have a device that doesn't need to be charged every couple hours, QWERTY keyboard can't be beat

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I may be hitting you up when I get my new unit with some questions, if that is OK?